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- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -1/+18***** HID lights. Being blinded on the road at night is not what I'd call safe.
- dvsbastard, on 07/14/2009, -1/+14Just a reminder for you all to make sure you check your headlight fluid... You don't want to let it get too low...
- SauceSpot, on 07/14/2009, -0/+10i hate the ***** who use HIDs in a light housing made for halogen lamps, light scatters everywhere and blinds on-coming traffic, plus the hi color temps (really blue or really purple looking ones) they use is god awful for seeing clearly at night. Nothing wrong with HIDs that come from cars that have projectors made for HIDs as theyre focused and use the right color temp.
- Maynza, on 07/14/2009, -0/+10Seriously, we need a ***** standard for brightness, nothing is worse than being blinded by someones LOW beams.
- densetsu23, on 07/14/2009, -0/+8More like ***** people with HID lights that don't know how to aim headlights.
Properly aimed headlights will be focused on the road, not the retinas of oncoming drivers. Unfortunately, a lot of people with aftermarket HIDs just pop them in without bothering to aim them. - emt1451, on 07/14/2009, -0/+7Just you
- marmotjmarmot, on 07/14/2009, -0/+7When my grandfather found he could put headlights/lamps on his tractor, my dad joined the Marines.
- densetsu23, on 07/14/2009, -1/+7Yes, and they will travel away from you at the speed of light. It's called relativity.
See: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/709/if-yo ... - bringitontimx, on 07/14/2009, -0/+5These Expeditions and Suburban's heights ain't helping either.
- FairDinkumMate, on 07/14/2009, -0/+5I live in Brazil & they have recently banned HID lights on any vehicle that doesn't come standard with them. No more dodgy aftermarket jobs!
- abadonn, on 07/14/2009, -0/+4http://books.google.com/books?id=875TTxildJ0C& ...
- cliffzdude, on 07/14/2009, -0/+4Most blinding "HID" experiences are faux HID lights, which are just halogens that are tinted bluish and sold as after-market add-ons, that are far too bright. Then are idiots who put HID bulbs (and requisite ballasts) into headlight housings meant for halogens, as referenced above by FairDinkumMate... Sure one can retrofit projectors, and the required ballasts and bulbs from a different car - there is a decent amount of respectable car modders doing this and the result is OEM quality. Then come the kids with a 10 year old, 110HP CIVIC, who have replaced their muffler with the buzzing bee variety, woofers that rattle their license plate loose, and put in illegal HID lights in their halogen housings.
A properly aimed HID headlight has a sharper cutoff than a standard halogen headlight, and are less likely to dazzle oncoming cars than a new~ish (brighter when new) halogen headlight. This is especially true when the headlight assembly utilizes a projector, as do the majority of HID headlights.
HID headlights are great; I'm on my 3rd car with HIDs, and I have never been flashed with high beams by oncoming traffic. My wife in her mini van w/ halogens started to get high beam flashed by oncoming cars all the time, her right headlight just needed a quick re-aim and all has been good since. - EdgarAllenPwn, on 07/14/2009, -3/+7No.
Next Question. - Philbert, on 07/14/2009, -0/+3I've actually noticed in the past year or so, a LOT of people driving with only one headlight. I'm guessing it's due to the economy. it's to the point where I'll go for a 5 minute drive and see 3 cars with one light.
- alanocu, on 07/13/2009, -3/+6Can anyone answer this question: If you're driving your car at the speed of light and you put your headlights on, what happens? Do the headlamps travel away from you?
- spriggig, on 07/14/2009, -2/+4<rant>
I'm so ***** tired of the ***** with their headlights shining every which way like the nipples on a bad boob job. Right in my ***** eyes! How about I swerve and ram into your precious little pile of ***** and claim that I couldn't see a damn thing because I was blind from your ***** lights you ***** little 120 lb *****!
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Thanks. - bringitontimx, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2i'm surprised the first LED light car is the LS600, and not some Infiniti or Audi.
- FitteMas, on 07/14/2009, -4/+6no. i think they will stick to the car even better.
light however will still travel forward at the speed of light - shadowspawn, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2I always hear this, and I always shake my head. I always picture a redneck mechanic who never worked on any foreign cars, joking about jap transistor stuff while spittin some tobacco.
Certain Mercedes had liquid-filled levels (yea, like your normal home tool level) built in to let the mechanic know if the "auto leveler" was working right. (I think Chevy did this too for vettes, early ZR-1's). In the midwest heat, they'd crack and eventually the fluid would evaporate. Headlights would still function. The alignment/level "sight glass" wouldn't tell you anything since there wasn't any fluid.
And certain Toyota models, sticks with turbos also had a gasket along a junction that allowed the 4cyl engine to twist and turn along the exhaust manifold before the cat converter. - shadowspawn, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2You don't really travel at the speed of light. The universe travels opposite your direction; you're "pushing" it away from you.
- buddypriefert, on 07/14/2009, -1/+3Looking forward to warm-toned LED lights for the household. I know exterior LEDs are available but 1) are expensive and 2) are too blueish toned to be used indoors.
- Vivifyer, on 07/14/2009, -0/+2illuminating article..........
- Vivifyer, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1mine are aftermarket, but i did bother to aim them :)
- serif69, on 07/14/2009, -1/+2Might as well check the muffler bearings while you're at it.
- Vivifyer, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1looks like a bright future........
- sageerrant, on 07/16/2009, -0/+1...why have I been buried so deep?
The faster you move in any of the three physical dimensions, the slower you move through time. - shadowspawn, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1That'd be a reference to a 10-bolt main with a 7.5" ring/pinion, again by rednecks or backwater-city mechanics who didn't understand when chevy started making the really strong posi's, that became popular with cameros in the early 70's; they used totally different fluid than gear oil. You couldn't use gear oil in them.
Using gear oil in a posi-traction rear would ruin it. The dealer would bitch at a garage that ever did this, and I believe most mechanics would be shocked by the simple fact that one needed something like transmission oil because of the wet clutches. - skipvt, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1That was an article need to be written. Now the internet is complete.
- ugacrew, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1That reminds me. I need to check the '710' fluid too. ;-)
- Hellahulla, on 07/14/2009, -0/+1Don't misaligned headlights mean a failed MOT/Road worthiness test? I don't know about HIDs but you don't have to ***** around with alignment when you change a bulb, AFAIR at least.
- dvsbstrd, on 07/14/2009, -4/+1I <3 Sealed Beams
- whipnet, on 07/14/2009, -4/+1Gotta get me some headlights that I can light my doobs with.
* - Snipz, on 07/14/2009, -5/+2Anyone else for just a brief second think this was about boobs?
Just me I bet. - sageerrant, on 07/14/2009, -6/+1No. Time would be standing still, so turning the headlights on would be impossible.
- Presbyterian, on 07/14/2009, -5/+0Sicko....
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